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Facebook Does it Again – Company Sends Funeral Home Advertisements To Cancer Sufferer
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I don’t know what it’s going to take to get people to stop using Facebook. I really don’t.
Last month, I highlighted an extremely important warning from Salim Varani in the post, A Very Disturbing and Powerful Post – “Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook.” If you somehow missed that piece, go ahead and read it now. Here’s a an excerpt to give you a little taste:
“Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to ask you why you’re getting off Facebook,” is the guilty and reluctant question I’m hearing a lot these days. Like we kinda know Facebook is bad, but don’t really want to know.
I’ve been a big Facebook supporter – one of the first users in my social group who championed what a great way it was to stay in touch, way back in 2006.
I got my mum and brothers on it, and around 20 other people. I’ve even taught Facebook marketing in one of the UK’s biggest tech education projects, Digital Business Academy. I’m a techie and a marketer — so I can see the implications — and until now, they hadn’t worried me. I’ve been pretty dismissive towards people who hesitate with privacy concerns.
With this latest privacy change on January 30th, I’m scared.
Given the company’s aggressive push to monetize all their users’ personal data and conversations, it was only a matter of time before we’d see an egregious real world example of what can go wrong.
It all went wrong for Daniel Kapp, an Austria-based strategic consultant diagnosed with prostrate cancer last month. Shortly after googling the disease, he became bombarded with funeral home advertisements on Facebook. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get rid of them.
The Daily Mail reports that:
A cancer patient who searched online for support about his disease was left horrified when Facebook began placing advertisement for funeral directors on his Facebook feed.
Daniel Kapp, 46, was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month. Shortly after he used the web to learn more about the illness.
When he opened Facebook the following day he said he was ‘bombarded’ with ‘insensitive’ promotions that he couldn’t remove.
‘I was just knocked off my feet to see that there on the screen,’ said Mr Kapp, who works as a strategic consultant in Austria.
‘It is just completely insensitive. And every time I tried to delete it, it appeared again.’
He blamed Facebook for monitoring the data about the searches he had done and then using it in order to sell it on to potential advertisers.
When contacted by local media, the directors of the funeral companies said they were shocked their adverts were being used to target people in this way. One said: ‘I can confirm that this should never have happened.’
It gathers information about devices, sites people visit, searches they’ve made and demographic data they have entered into their account on the social network.
Initially these cookies were just used on the site, but in September Facebook launched its Atlas ad platform that monitors these movements around the wider web.
Today Facebook added a new tool called Topic Data that now additionally scans what people are ‘saying about events, brands, subjects and activities.’
More abuses to come. Virtually guaranteed.
Facebook has not yet responded to MailOnline’s request to comment on Mr Kapp’s complaints.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. One of the most significant indications things are turning around for the better and that humanity is growing up, is when Facebook begins to bleed users. Until then…
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I think this is entirely appropriate - asian dating service ads might be a bit premature, I guess....
You will know the technology is perfected when they start peppering you with ads for funeral homes, and you aren't sure why.
Comedy Gold like this comprises 90% of facebooks book value!
They have a bright future. /s/
RIPS
"prostrate cancer"
What part of the body is the prostrate?
C'mon. If the core of the article is a guy with cancer getting an inappropriate ad, at least get the name of his cancer right.
Another Big Data success story. Get your loved ones off FaceBook.
All you need to know about Facebook in another stupid story...
The Grand Wussification of America Continues as Protests Erupt over Facebook EmoticonsProstrate is the part the genuflects toward DC, so that must be kept healthy....
Facebook is getting there and soon gay men will be getting pregency prevention ads...
How about having your Apple Watch buzz you a warning: Lookout! The guy you're with has AIDS!
LOL man this thread is turning into pure comedy gold! in a good way
It WILL be an Apple watch too.
That demographic are very "appearance conscious", and so "lesser brands" just won't cut it, even though they may offer far more functionality / performance / battery endurance per $ outlay.
"and you aren't sure why."
The user of the computer was browsing funeral homes, didn't clear history, and doesn't use adblock plus.
It's that simple- no mystery whatsoever.
Couldn't have been from an online condolence, could it?
Seek further.
I think the implication was that the technology will be perfected when it predicts your impending demise without you giving it a big hint.
Sort of like getting package from (insert online marketplace here) full of toilet paper, wondering why, and then when you go to evacuate discovering that there's only 1 square left.
JIT delivery meets spooky action at a distance.
It could be far spookier: Imagine having the toilet paper delivered in a refrigerated van (when you had a particularly hot Vindaloo the previous evening . . ). THAT is when you start to really think "What's going on here??" :-)
No shit...
Lost a co-worker a year ago & got a fricken email from the funeral home this am advising me to contact the loved ones left behind.
Boy did they get an earful.
You are the one who needs an earful, mr entitlement. Your email is probably the only contact information a coworker could provide.
You ought to have a web site.
thanks for the scrolling pictures.
great stuff.
dupe
For anyone who has yet to face the barrage of bank breaking choices upon the death of a loved one - or your own death:
http://www.trappistcaskets.com/products/urns/single-wooden-urns/
Refuse to be pressured by Death Inc. (especially in the USA)
Keep it simple, dignified and affordable. Never be pressured by anyone to do/buy anything:
http://www.trappistcaskets.com/pre-need/your-rights-in-buying-a-casket/
hire a boat and feed me to the sharks.... ecofriendly, quick, cheap and easy....
Backhoe and a pine box works for me since I'll be dead and won't give a shit....
I'm signed uo for the wolf, coyote, grizzly bear and turkey vulture plan. Didn't take the Polar bear option: too cold and far away.
@KnuckleDragger-X
I agree with you but the family members who survive you will be under terrible pressure to make decisions while in shock and mourning and that's where Death Inc. steps in to insist that lots and lots of money must be spent on a dead body. You think Goldman Sachs is filthy? Try any local funeral parlour for pure greed and coersion. Death Inc. is a filthy racket, one of the worst, why do you think they are in league with Facebook?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death
I went through this last year upon the death of my father. A lot of the pressure is self induced- we can't skimp on him now, we only get to do this once, so gotta do it right, blah blah blah. I work in an ICU and see death routinely. It sort of blunts me to wanting to be extravegant on funerals. But, my siblings all also get a say. Luckily, I convinced them to only be moderately ridiculous. We still spent somewhere near 20K. That is money that could have stayed in the family and helped some of the poorer ones. Lots of emotion/family politics all swirling about with this stuff. And the funeral home guys know it as typical and take advantage of it.
sorry about your pops. i had a similar experience with my family last year. and not only do they charge you up the ass and exploit your grievance, they are creepy as hell too. i mean, you would think they understood the stereotypes for that line of work but its as tho they embrace it!
@Maskone909
Sorry to insist on it but see my post above, in fact my two posts above. Death Inc. USA is unbelievably pervasive and insidious. I'm trying to inform people of the reality. Death is inevitable we all know that but when it happens we are all vulnerable because of shock and grief - do not give away your family fortune of a few thousands of dollars to Death Inc. and a dead body.
Do it the right way. No chemical embalming and no expensive casket.Do not let anyone pressure you to do otherwise.
Read this book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death
"i had a similar experience with my family last year. and not only do they charge you up the ass and exploit your grievance, they are creepy as hell too. i mean, you would think they understood the stereotypes for that line of work but its as tho they embrace it!"
Embrace it? They invented it! Are you so naive? It's a huge, billion dollar business. How can you be so naive? Oh dear. When oh when will people ever grow the up ???
They don't "charge you", you have no idea what your rights are so you pay someone to do what you do not know how to do - and they charge you for what you do not even want but you are too sad and confused to even ask any questions. Well, stop it. Make it stop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death
alright ajax calm the fuck down. they embrace the creepyness. CREEPYNESS. im assuming from all the "wanker" bullshit that you are a brit. and i hope that would explain your missunderstanding of my post. for fucks sake you even went as far as to make two replies? quit being such a long tooth soccer playing tea drinking faggot.
My family knows my feeling about the death industry and backhoe is the way to go....
Wife has been left clear and simple instructions post my demise.
Burn me then flush me.
Raywolf - I got a plan. When I start shitting my pants and my mind starts
going it will be time to go. I'll buy a very fast used motorcycle, pick up aome peyote and jump the Grand Canyon without a parachute.
Of course I'lll Youtube it and leave the ad royalties to the kids. My fiance is mortified but my kids love the plan. One last mighty thrill then the great beyond.
The Sharia way (US milit. interpretation at least). On land, you comply with a simple white cloth wrap. Even cheaper.
I was asked if I wanted to embalm b4 cremation.
ROFL
I believe that is law in Michigan.
Then we are taxed for pollution, when it is mandated.
Insanity and Oligarchy at its finest.
ADA...
affordable death act?
$200-$400 for a cheap cigar box? OMG
http://tinyurl.com/qy5mdlu
If only there was similiar transparency in healthcare pricing...
http://www.trappistcaskets.com/pre-need/your-rights-in-buying-a-casket/
Genius. Thank you William.
Why, just look at that beautiful ewe. Oh yea, they've got us figured out, buddy.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Karma's a bitch Faceplant
facebook blows. and anyone that uses it must face the consequences. sorry, not going to feel bad for this guy getting funeral home ads because he has agreed to let facebook into all facets of his life.
the problem is that most people think facebook is wholesome and benign. its deceptive in its tactics. many users were on board way before they publicly informed them in their fine print that they will be exploited.
but that's so logical ...
CRB (commodity index) hit multi year lows today
nowhere to go but ...
lower ... a lot lower
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/CRB?countrycode=XX
I haven't logged into my facefuck account for probably 2 years. I was tempted to make a troll account under the name of "Chairman Mao" to troll the ATF over its proposed M855 ban here recently, but I resisted the temptation to troll the BATFE.
Do not do that. I deleted my NSACIAFUCKERBOOK account because under Zuckerfucker's new TOS, simply signing into your Fuckerbook account aloows fuckerbook complete access to every file on that device. You have been warned.
What's the over/under that the NSA already has all of your searches stored with enough information to link those searches to you?
IDGAF but I'm not going to enable them further along.
i will bet that there is a clause in the TOS that gives FB the ability to continue back-dooring your device even after the account is closed.
I have no FB account. However, I just assume anything I search or post is public. I really do not give a shit at this point.
. "under Zuckerfucker's new TOS, simply signing into your Fuckerbook account aloows fuckerbook complete access to every file on that device."
Can you document this? Would like to know because my wife uses it. Thanks.
Goto Fuckerbook and READ the TOS
Shit, I won't even go to the website. I'll advise the wife to do it.
I was actually lucky... about a week after I created a Facebook Acct my email got hacked thru FB. Haven't been back since....
Aha--so that's why they grey out and delete my posts and comments whenever I refer to Markie Zuckerberg's Nazi War Criminal Grandpa Georgy Soros...
Just wondering.
/sarc
This explains all of the Cialis and Rogaine ads I've been getting
I might be primitive but I prefer to send group emails to freinds and I totally bypass feces book.
Even dangerous animals aren't tracked as much as we are these days.
@peter pan
Dangerous animals? Ha! Where the fuck do you live? South Central L.A. surrounded by pit bulls?
fucking repulsive. no wonder that POS was sweating his ass off ----->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYzjjSfT8s
people are becomming narcisisstic. selfie sticks? 75% IG and FB servers space are of people taking close up shots of their ugly fucking faces. go take a look at the average user. their whole fucking account consists of pictures of themselves!!!! fucking peices of shit!!!!
Agreed. Back in my day the term 'selfie' meant something COMPLETELY different. Today, it means self centered douchebag.
When exactly did "selfie" mean anything else?
Self-portrait is a painting/photograph of oneself. "Selfie" is simply an annoying term for the same, but then anything from Australia is fucking annoying...
Unless you are referring to "onanism" which is altogether another sort of 'selfie'...?
I think that element of human curiosity has always been there. There was never an avenue for such disgusting display of it until recently.
Small story, bears repeating. Chinese New Year this year - guy across street lights up phat fireworks. Two gals (millennial age) bust out their phones and video the damn thing. People can't even enjoy watching live-in-front-of-you fireworks these days...
its a paradigm shift towards socialism. your individual experience means NOTHING unless it is validated by a slew of likes and emoji's.
"its a paradigm shift towards socialism."
Bullshit. Nothing to do with with socialism you idiot.
Everything to do with self-advertisement.
explain the rational behinde self advertisement. and fit that into why 10 yearolds are taking selfies. now tell me how any of that shit matters when the whole purpose of it is to monitor your communication. the like buttons are just an incentive for dumbasses to continue putting their lives online, for more validation. btw i didnt dv u
The deep urge is to relationship - at it's extreme, melting into some group or collective. Socialism is a political/economic expression of the same urge. People are intrinsically social but also have the capacity to operate as more-or-less independent agents -- but only if that capacity is developed, most fundamentally as the ability to face the naked existential fact of their own life and death.
socialism is much more sinister than simply attributing it to natural human behavior, or for survival. its a product of corruption and croneyism- of powerful groups of men. to say its a natural tendincy would be to say corruption is too. its a different matter all together when applied to individuals, vs groups, vs governments.
I was describing a human inclination to socialism, not the system itself.
narcissism & ego.
remember glamour shots?
my fucking ex gf in HS made me go do that once. ergo, ex GF
ROFL...
made you?
sorry, can't quit laffing on that one.
gun or knife?
neither. vagina
And, since they don't allow nudity, pointless. Twitter is the place.
That facebook advertising is insensitive is probably the least of your worries.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/fbi-interrogated-man-after-comment-ab...
I use Facebook daily; mostly to troll my libtard friend with, you know, real things that are happening. Look, they already know everything anyway. Why bother to worry? If you're reading or posting on Zero Hedge you're just as far gone as anybody on Facesucker. The only way to escape "Them" is to move yourself to a cave somewhere deep within a national park and commit to a hunting and gathering lifestyle with no electricity or probably even fire. Otherwise, you're on the grid motherfucker! Have you ever walked into a convenience or grocery store? YOU'RE ON THE GRID. Have you ever driven a car? YOU'RE ON THE GRID. Have you given your real SSN to an employer? YOU'RE ON THE GRID.
It's a funny sort of fake moralism that strikes me more as generational animosity than legitimate resistance.
There is a key difference between facefuck and places like ZH. I have not outright given my identity on here. That means that if I post something that is outright incendiary, they at least have to have a pretext for snooping around to find out who I really am. People on facefuck give their identities freely, which means that anything that they say is automatically open to scrutiny by the police state.
"They" know exactly who you are and absolutely everywhere you've been. "They" control the routers that make the connection between El Vaquero's PC and everything else on the internet. Absolutely every transaction is logged. You've got a file that would be a mile deep if it were a printed document.
Yes, and in order to use that, they would have to admit just how deep the police state is. They cannot do that without risking the guillotines. If you publically put out your identity, they need no pretext, no reason, and do not need to admit that they watch everything.
Why worry about it? It didn't help the Stasi and it won't help the American police state either in the end.
It'll be an interesting question about whether we should make all the records 100% public or destroy them. I wonder if people might be willing to feel a little more compassion for others' quirks, fetishes, and eccentricities if all their own were permanently memorialized as well?
Worry about it because if they really want to use the information that they have stored, they'll have to show their true colors. If they really want to use it, not only will they have to go through it (IMO, there is more information than they can have humans sift through, which is another issue,) but they will have to take actions that will result in the justification of killing them outright. They will have to bear their claws and fangs to use it.
Well, what are they going to do when the Ponzi scheme blows up? I'm not sure they themselves quite know.
Not your DVer btw
I had to remove access to theinternet for my granddaughter.
The adults are no less irresonsible, she at least has youth as an excuse,even
after ignoring repeated warning.
I have a well deserved paranoia over spying, having been bugged by a biz partner back in
1970's.Cost me a lot of money.How people give their privacy away is beyond me.
some days you strike me as a genius, ... there really is little or no law for them, the people on this site have a special colored file (or the modern digital equivalent) and the more aggressive personalities are likely monitored relentlessly ... your only salvation, at present, is that a lot of people doing the monitoring tend to agree with the things you say, as do i
The State (i.e. pantsuiters like Ms. Hillary and her globalist buddies) consider humans to be chattel.
PS - I like your avatar, hoping it means you are a Linux user.
PSS - zuckerschnitzel is a loser just like gates... facebook aint nuthin' but a db driven geocities of yore with moving pictures, more javascript - namely, a joke.
Anyway, we all know that anyone who needs more than 64k of memory for their program can't code worth a shit :-) fookin visionaries
@czarangelus You really don't understand a thing about it do you?
"Look, they already know everything anyway. Why bother to worry?"
No "they" don't already know everything about most of us but "they" certainly are grateful to you for making things so much easier when it comes to idiots like yourself. Wanker.
I hate to break it to you, but what used to be CCTV isn't closed circuit anymore. Now it's connected to Them. So have you ever walked into a government office? A grocery store? A convenience store? Have you showed yourself in a bank, outside a bank, or anywhere near a bank?
Boom, they've got your face and know who you are and where you live.
@czarangelus
Get over yourself, there's nothing new about cameras in banks, post offices, stores etc and "they" don't know where you live from your photo.
Facebook is an "Openbook" for all sorts of very personal information about oneself. Go ahead - advertise yourself. Wanker.
There is something new about them all being connected to the Internet and the NSA. Probably goes back 10, 15 years, maybe not longer than that. Don't believe me? Take a look at this.
http://gizmodo.com/a-creepy-website-is-streaming-from-73-000-private-sec...
And yes, they have facial recognition tech, connected to point of sale systems to glean your identity from your credit card, that would make you piss your shorts.
Just about everthing in The Bourne Trilogy turns out to be accurate.
@ ajax- Wrong. Bank camera captures your image with timestamp. They see when you do transaction with timestamp, see transaction details such as name/address/phone#/ss#/next of kin from account details in electronic database. Easy if you have access to bank servers. THINK before you type.
Well there is the additional detail that Zuckerberger is a complete liberal fascist asshole troll fuckmonster and by using his site you are supporting him and everything he believes in which other than code.org is objsctionable. Personally I only signed up after they first published their API in order to do a prototype of a product that hooked into it. I finally deleted my two accounts, neither of which actually used my real name, along with my developer credentials and projects about 3 months ago. I cannot stand to support such a shitstick by using his shit, especially given how in your face he and his company are content to be in his attempt to catch Bill Gates as the richest motherfucker on the planet.
@t0mmyBerg: NICE ONE BRAVO. BRAVO AGAIN.
"I use Facebook daily; mostly to troll my libtard friend with, you know, real things that are happening."
You really think you're clever don't you? Well you aren't. Wanker.
OT but fucking hilarious
Biden Worries Legalized Weed In D.C. Will Cut Into His Businesshttp://www.theonion.com/articles/biden-worries-legalized-weed-in-dc-will...
Any users of a service whose CEO calls his customers "dumb fuckers" deserve everything they're going to get.
And when i shop for something on Amazon, similar items appear on the sidebar at zerohedge. bfd
Adblock plus will fix that too.
Anyone who joins Fagbook deserves it.
What's wrong with planning ahead? It is not done enough in America.
Damn now that is an algorithm fuckup of epic proportions...Never been on it, never will be on it. What a waste of time.
Are you serious? We all die. That person is a pussy. Just because he or she has cancer doesn't make him or her more special.
Au contraire, everyone is special today. Didn'tcha get yer participation trophy?
cigar, ur a dick. that is all.
two words FUCK FACEBOOK
No its three words
Fuck off Facebook
Friends don't let friends use Faceplant.
Do people need any more reason not to be using Facebook?! Seriously if you want to interact with someone just call or email, not that hard.
Do Facebook employees get email advertisements for Preparation H?
Not that different than Traeger ads showing up on ZH or Drudge for me after looking for accessories on search engines.
I'll stick with email.
The NYPD is billing the public to improve their image.
Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza
Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed.
“The matter is under internal review,” an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital after examples of the changes were presented to the NYPD.
The edits and changes were linked to the NYPD through a series of Internet Protocol addresses, or IP addresses, which can be publicly tracked by various websites. (Here, for example, is one website that shows a number of IP addresses registered to the NYPD.) IP addresses can locate where a computer is when it connects to the Internet.
It's a shame, Wikipedia is morphing into trash.
yes, just now.
Are you trying to be funny, or living in denial?
Wiki is as used by our masters as FB
haha ive never heard it put quite like that. i like it. making my own wiki page as we speak ;-)
Im only going to tell you slaves this one FUCKING time. If you use FACEBOOK you deserve whatever you get....
FuckerBERG says it all.
I own a health publishing website and we send email ads based on ailments. Here is how I run my business:
1) The consumer has to complete a registration form providing consent to receive ads.
2) We frequency cap how much email a user gets per month to no more than three.
3) We use a real-time opt out system. One click and the user is off the list.
4) We review content from each advertiser.
What Facebook did probably violated HIPPA laws and the Anti-Pornography and Can-Spam Act of 2004. This man probably can sue both Google and Facebook. Also, this kind of ad was very fucking tacky.
Those laws don't apply to an Austrian, in Austria.
And Hippa has been obliterated by the ACA, except when it comes to getting your own, or your child's, information.
As if laws matter for us little guys. How amusing that thought is.
take a trip to your local california medical institution and watch in awe how many california patient bill of rights violations occur. same can be said about thee bill of rights i suppose.
When.MySpace and Facebook first came to life, my gut told me this shit will eventually be used for evil purposes and I never signed on. It bothered me to tell my relatives and friends that I could.not."like" them when I got those stupid email requests.
Now I.see.reports like this and wish I'd have been so.clarvoiant when I bought that monster box of.silver eagles back in 2011.
a bird in hand is worth two in the bush. look at it this way, you are better than 99% of the fuckers who dont own any at all!
Considering the creep mission towards making Euthenasia universally acceptable....A prominent Health Architect recently suggesting to people to stop trying to lve past 70 because they..(Im close to they and still working)..are straining the system I find it Its amazing ads for hop on the carousel a la Logans Run are not following people over 40.
Of course politicians and oligarchs get free extensions.
Funeral service is to blame - not Facebook
“Lean In”, now please bend over.
And here’s the most insincere statement you will frequently hear from social media companies:
“We’re sorry if we caused you any inconvenience.”
And here’s a famous line from Jurassic Park, adapted to social media:
“Your system developers were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
And for those who are still all-OK with the level of surveillance and invasion of privacy in our society, maybe this Bloomberg article will change your mind:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/companies-are-tracking-employees-to-nab-traitors